Acts 22:1-11 ▼

1 “Men, brothers and fathers, hear now my defense to you?.”

2 And having heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew language, they became even more quiet. And he says,

3 “I am a man, a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been educated according to the exactness of the law of our fathers, being a zealous one of God, even as all of you? are this day,

4 who persecuted this Way as far as death, binding and delivering to prisons both men and women,

5 as also the high priest—and all the elderhood—testifies to me, from whom also having received letters to the brothers, I was going to Damascus to bring also those being there bound to Jerusalem so that they might be punished.

6 But it happened to me, journeying and drawing near to Damascus about noon, that suddenly a great light out of heaven shone around me,

7 and I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?’

8 And I answered, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And He said to me, ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting.’

9 And those being with me indeed saw the light, but they did not hear the voice of the One speaking to me.

10 And I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ And the Lord said to me, ‘Having risen up, go to Damascus, and there it will be told to you concerning all things that it has been appointed to you to do.’

11 And while I could not see from the brightness of that light, I came to Damascus, being led by the hand by those being with me.